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Johnson County Library is pleased to announce that Jared Campbell has won our poetry contest on the theme Color Our World with his piece "Favorite Painting." Jared M. Campbell is a lawyer living in...

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elementia

Mirror of my soul

By Bethanie Powell

My mind confused. My body unable to move. My blood

gone cold. My face turns pale. I look in the mirror to see no

one no reflection the reflection that I once saw was that of a

girl that was fake had no love for anyone but herself my life

identity

I wish

By Rabi Hemayoun

issue 4

On a cold February evening I learned one of life’s biggest lessons: appreciate what you have at present because once it’s taken away from you, all you’ll have left are memories. For me that ‘it’ was my fifteen month old niece, Bano.

Grief

death